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  <span class="xr_tl xr_s0" style="top: -14px;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="xr_s4" style="">Organizing your project folders and images before you begin.</span></span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="top: 27px;">Before you start up Spriter itself, its important to understand, Spriter is not used to draw images from </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="top: 44px;">scratch, it's used to combine, move, rotate and stretch images you've already created in order to create </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="top: 62px;">fully assembled frames and animations.</span>
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  <span class="xr_tl xr_s4" style="left: 323px; top: -14px;">Step 2) (Starting Spriter and creating your project </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 323px; top: 3px;"><span class="xr_s4" style="">file) </span>Start Spriter and from the main menu </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 323px; top: 21px;">choose: File/New Project or hold Cntrl+N.</span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 323px; top: 57px;">You will be prompted to choose the root folder for </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 323px; top: 74px;">your project.&nbsp; Click OK and then use the file </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 323px; top: 92px;">dialogue to direct Spriter to the main project folder </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 323px; top: 110px;">you had created.. In the case o four example, this </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 323px; top: 127px;">would be the folder called &#8220;Platformer&#8221;.&nbsp; Spriter's </span>
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  <span class="xr_tl xr_s5" style="left: 323px; top: 163px;"><span class="xr_s1" style="">ready to begin creating your first key frame.</span></span>
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  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="top: -14px;"><span class="xr_s4" style="">IMPORTANT! </span>Once you begin your Spriter project, the actual Spriter file (.scml) should always be </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="top: 3px;">saved in the main project folder which you'd created.&nbsp; You can save backup files of the .scml anywhere </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="top: 21px;">you'd like, but if you then load them, they won't know where to find the required images because </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s0" style="top: 39px;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="xr_s1" style="">Spriter only looks for images from the same root as the .scml file itself.</span></span>
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  <span class="xr_tl xr_s4" style="left: 419px; top: -14px;">Step 1) (Getting your images ready) </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 3px;">Create a project folder which will be </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 21px;">used for your Spriter </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 39px;">project.&nbsp; Then add sub-folders in which </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 57px;">you should organize the PNG images </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 74px;">you'll be using to create </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 92px;">your animations. For example:&nbsp; If you </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 110px;">were creating animation sets for a </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 127px;">platformer game, you might </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 145px;">first create the project folder and name </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 163px;">it &#8220;Platformer&#8221; and then inside that </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 181px;">folder you would create </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 198px;">other folder named &#8221;hero&#8221;, </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 216px;">&#8220;mushroom&#8221;, &#8220;turtle&#8221;, &#8220;effects&#8221;, &#8220;sub-</span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 234px;">boss&#8221; etc and within each of those </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 252px;">folders you'd place the images you'll be </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="left: 419px; top: 269px;">using to create and animate those </span>
  <span class="xr_tl xr_s1" style="top: 287px;">respective characters or objects.</span>
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